How Gerard Manley Hopkins vividly portrays the beauty of pied things? The poem ‘Pied Beauty’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins uses an array of ways to show vivid beauty in this small text. He uses ways such as intense imagery, sound effects such as the rhythm and alliteration. The word pied just means 2 different shades of colours, meaning that the title just means the 2 different shades of beauty. Beauty can be both seen as internal and external. This poem shows that everything is made by god so praise him. Also in this poem the first line has a word which says “things”, when we humans say things we are including everything excluding us. He believed that everything created by nature and nature itself is the most beautiful thing, because God created it, and therefore he calls everything, even something we would consider as odd or ugly, beautiful. What is interesting, that Gerard Manley Hopkins was religious; he was a Roman Catholic priest. Maybe it was his experience that brought him to the idea of beautiful pied things created by God. One of the ways the author shows the beauty of pied things is by using intense amounts of imagery. This is evident in lines “For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow”, “For rose-moles all in stipple upon the trot that swim” and “Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls”. The first quote, “For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow” shows that how the sky with its imperfect, odd patterns is beautiful. How brinded cows have different coloration pattern which is imperfect, they might look ugly but they are beautiful. These things might not actually look beautiful to us but according to Hopkins he believes that whatever is a creation of god must be beautiful. Things might look ugly on the exterior but their soul is pure this is why the poem’s name is “Pied Beauty” as it is unclear. The author also finds beauty in things such as “Fresh-Firecoal chestnuts-falls”. If we are to look at glowing firecoal we see very bright yellow centre which resembles the...

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...Madison Nasser
Dr. Brenda Ayres
ENGL 216-000
22 April 2013
“An Odd Poem About Oddities”
A study of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ "PiedBeauty"
Many early works about nature take their appreciation for our Father's artistic flair to an unwanted extreme. If individuals forget that nothing we enjoy would exist if the Creator did not have the urge to bring it about they displease Him for He is a jealous God. Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the few authors that was able to sit back and adore nature without losing sight of the Lord and we can see that in his sonnet "PiedBeauty." Through themes expressing a unique beauty in the oddities of nature, Hopkins demonstrated the correct way to show adoration for God's works while keeping in mind that God is separate from His creations.
It is quite interesting that Hopkins’ poem talks about oddities while it in itself, is an oddity. A normal sonnet consists of an eight line octave and then a six line sestet. Hopkins ignored this guideline and shortened the former grouping to six lines and the latter was cut down to four and a half. Despite this modified form, the work is still considered a sonnet. Upon reading this work out loud one can also pick up on a sense of musicality. The author pairs repeated similar sounds like “fickle, freckle; dappled, adazzle” (2163) with alliteration such as “swift, slow, sweet, sour; fold, fallow” (2162) to bring about a...

...Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote this poem ‘PiedBeauty’, which used the tone of contradiction to convince readers to praise and be thankful to God, as He had given us whatever we have. On the other hand, ‘Hunting Snake’ written by Judith Wright created the tone of tense by illustrating the reactions of the poet and her companion when they met a hunting snake on their walk. Great senses of imagery were created in both the poems ‘PiedBeauty’ and ‘Hunting Snake’.
First difference between two poems is shown in the structure and rhyme of both poems. Piedbeauty is a sonnet poem with rhyme (ABCABCDABDB). This highlights the melodic line of this pome, enhancing the sense of awe. On the other hand, Hunting has 4 stanzas consist of 4 lines each with rhyme (ABAB) until the third stanza. Sudden removal of rhyme contrasts the situation before and after the snake has gone underscoring the contrasting emotion of Wright.
‘PiedBeauty’ portrayed the beauty of God’s creation. Simile was used in ‘for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow’ to describe the double-colored blue sky with white clouds. Some cows have black spots on their white bodies. Hopkins compared the two-toned color to the brindled cows. Author used this simile to convince the reader that simple and common things can be beautiful. ‘Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls’ metaphorically represented the...

...am going to explore and analyze how Gerard Manley Hopkins marries the two themes of religion and nature together in his poem, “PiedBeauty”, and how these ideas are presented in terms of language, form, and structure.
Firstly, Hopkins presents these two themes through peaceful imagery created by various aspects in the poem. For example, this is evident in “Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow and plough”. The word choices in this line, include “plotted”, “pieced” and “plough”, which all fall into the semantic field of agricultural work. Agriculture involves man’s interaction with land, which is not violent nor is it intrusive, but it is to shape and cultivate it. This can be seen as man himself performing God’s work, suggesting no distinct divide. This promotes the idea of man, nature and God as one entity. This point would be relevant in terms of historical context as during the Victorian Era, different social classes can be distinguished by inequalities in such areas as power, authority, and wealth. Hopkins could be writing “PiedBeauty” with the intent to bring awareness to equal opportunities and parity within society, using the link between nature and religion as a catalyst to eliminate social divides. Furthermore, the words “plotted” and “pieced” suggest the careful and intricate design of God’s creation, implying that the variegated beauty of the world was his intent.
Another example...

...G. M. Hopkins's "PiedBeauty"
In "PiedBeauty" we see a striking dualism in which the nature of beings is rendered in all that is unique, particular and individual. All multiplicity and diversity are the gift of God in the creation of being, emanating from Himself. Gerard Manley Hopkins gives praises to God for the natural beauty of the world, the variety of it and how everything fits together. God symbolizes what is constant and unchangeable. Unlike the things he creates, God never varies. Hopkins' symbols confirm his theme that a wondrous father exist because the worlds if full of beautiful things living in harmony.
The Instress and Inscape in "PiedBeauty":
The Inscape: is the uniqueness of each creature in nature. Each has a distinctive design that constitutes individual identity. Inscape is the differences between creatures.
The Instress: is the apprehension of an object in an intense thrust of energy that enables one to realize the its specific distinctiveness. It is the movement that links the creatures together. Instress is the similarities between the creatures.
1st Example "For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow;":
Hopkins takes two different creatures in the nature and contemplate in them. Both the sky and the cow have a unique and different identity. The cow is an animal that...

...﻿In the poem PiedBeauty, Gerard Manley Hopkins transmits a marvelous admiration of nature by underlining the importance of nature throughout the entire poem. More than anything else, there is a profound sense of joy and celebration that is permanently present through the poem. In other words, this is a feeling of wonder and awe – Hopkins is nearly amazed by the surprising creativity that comes from God. Moreover, with the use of imagery, listing and technical approach to language along the poem, Hopkins attempts to reflect the complexity, improvement and beautiful design of all the imperfect things that we so often lament about without any kind of consideration. In this poem, the author will make us understand the real beauty of nature and its hidden facets.
First, the poet makes us understand his passion for nature by making a frequent use of colours. In fact, the poem is a celebration of colours in nature. Hopkins begins the poem like a prayer by praising and glorifying God for the variety of colours present in the environment. The title suggests a celebration of colour and Hopkins has attained this with the use of unusual synonyms such as pied, dappled, couple colour and freckled. He employs a simile to compare the different tones that the sky acquires during the course of the day, to the different shades that he observes on the camouflage of the cattle pasturing in the prairie. Hopkins shows how precisely he...

...Stephen Lun
11R Eng Literature
Comment closely on the following poem, discussing how effective the poet shows his admiration for nature.
PiedBeauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth and all of its landscapes. Gerard Manly Hopkins intensely shows his adoration and admiration of nature, with it being his main theme, in “PiedBeauty”. Through diverse and effective uses of structure, imagery and symbolism he showcases his love for the world. First of all, when looking at the structure and format of the poem, it closely resembles that of a prayer shown by the one stanza format, the “Glory be to God” introduction and the “Praise him” conclusion. Hopkins introduces the concept of deism so early on because his mentality of nature being so elegant and ﬂawless leads him to believe that only divine intervention could have created something so pleasing. The rhythm present in the poem never loses its slow, gentle ﬂow, using only two full stops in the entire poem, to simulate the atmosphere of a calm scene in nature. Furthermore, the entire poem paints images spread across the whole colour spectrum. From “brinded cow” to “rose-moles” to even “ﬁrecoal[s]” and “chestnut[s]” Hopkins’ use of imagery creates a beautiful masterpiece of various hues that reﬂects his perception of nature. Hopkins uses artistic terms such as “dappled”, not just because he was a painter...

...Hopkins' sonnets typically shift from a personal, often sensual experience rooted in the physical world to moral, philosophical and theological reflections. Discuss this movement in relation to PiedBeauty.
PiedBeauty has one simple meaning: to convey the Jesuit motto "Ad maiorem Dei gloriam." Throughout the poem, Gerard Manley Hopkins makes shifts from theological reflections to descriptions of physical experiences.
The poem, like a psalm, gives us a confident description of nature as the work of God. The motto that all Jesuits- including Hopkins - follow is "Ad maiorem Dei gloriam" which means "In the greater glory of God." As a Jesuit priest and religious fanatic, Gerard Manley Hopkins felt obliged to reinforce the idea of the glory of God in most of the poems he wrote at the time. The poem starts:
"Glory be to God for dappled things - "
Here, he praises God and gives thanks. Why is he giving thanks?
"For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow:
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; "
Hopkins points out things that the majority of us take for granted on a daily basis. He finds beauty and eccentricity in all thst he sees: the irregular shapes and contrasting colours in the sky, which he compares to a brinded (brown and white) cow. In addition, he sees a quirky appeal in the rose-spotted belly of a trout, a fish common in the streams and lakes of England....

...‘Comment closely on the language and form od PiedBeauty, paying particular attention to the ways in which Hopkins expresses his response to the natural world.’
Gerard Manley Hopkins has a large and vast appreciation of nature. He values all creatures
and believes every one of them is beautiful. He was a very grateful religious man; he always praised God for everything. His theory was that everything in the world should be praised no matter what they looked like; everything had a beauty within them. He wants us to glorify God and all his creations.
He begins the first paragraph with, ‘Glory be to God for dappled things’. Most people usually only appreciate the good in life, things with beauty. Most people wouldn’t even consider giving appreciation to anything which isn’t. However Hopkins wants to glorify God for ‘dappled things’, he wants us to not only praise what is pretty but everything. He is trying to give off the message to thank God for all he has given us whether it is a rat or a peacock; he wants us to praise God for it.
Hopkins has a large use of oxymorons, this has a greater effect on his overall message in the poem.
He uses such opposites; provides us with such a strong contrast of language. Words like, ‘swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim’. These oxymorons go back and prove his point, to appreciate all of our world’s beauties. Not just the one which is prettier or the one...